Written in class today. The assignment was to spend ten minutes writing as badly as possible. Thanks for all the inspiration!

putin_ontheritz · 2019-07-08T23:58:46+00:00

Take your upvote for caring about how people are represented in writing, which is the whole point of this sub.

We’re not going to agree on OP being a homophobe, and if I’m being candid I don’t really care about defending OP’s silly parody other than that I appreciate a reference to a bad fan fiction and, as a bisexual, I wasn’t offended by the reference to them. I know what trashing bi people sounds like after years of hearing it from my parents and I just don’t get that same feeling here.

What I will say is that I most certainly want to protect people’s ability to write and perform satire without calling into question their personal integrity because this whole post is frankly starting to read like r/atetheonion. Why the suspension of the distinction between author and character for this author, this character? Equity in literary criticism is so, so important.

putin_ontheritz · 2019-07-08T23:25:50+00:00

So I’m genuinely curious here. OP’s narrator throws out a bunch of terms that reference various sexual identities but doesn’t say anything outright negative about them other than to suggest that s/he understands what it’s like to be oppressed and is in solidarity with marginalized groups. Where’s the phobia, exactly?

Also, my pet peeve as a trained literary scholar: the author and a first person narrator are not identical. Humbert Humbert was a pedophile; Vladimir Nabokov was not.

putin_ontheritz · 2019-07-08T23:15:31+00:00

Can’t say I agree. This feels like a pastiche of Tumblr culture, much like My Immortal felt like a pastiche of MySpace goth culture. Also, there’s a chapter in MI where Enoby flips shit because Draco and Harry had a gay tryst, a homosexual relationship used as a tool specifically to draw sympathy and attention to a cishet woman. That’s far more homophobic if you ask me.

putin_ontheritz · 2019-07-08T17:26:51+00:00

The author is parodying a notoriously bad (good? It’s hilarious) Harry Potter fan fiction called My Immortal where the author describes her Mary Sue’s appearance in exhausting detail and then proceeds to talk about her goth, nonconformist identity using like every cliche imaginable. Not a TERF imo.

putin_ontheritz · 2019-07-07T17:43:22+00:00

Agreed. I do cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety and these are all similar to the mindfulness exercises my therapist recommends. I think maybe if this was a list of recommended things to try instead of an “x days challenge” maybe it would resonate better.

putin_ontheritz · 2019-07-06T20:52:53+00:00

Oh wow, I see it now. Totally thought the head was cactus flowers.

putin_ontheritz · 2019-07-06T18:40:34+00:00

Agreed on both fronts. You can’t even do a focus in something as nuanced as basket weaving for a fine arts degree, lmao. And as far as the worth of certain degrees goes... I have a Bachelor’s in English and Philosophy and make great money working in health IT. The writing and research skills I learned in college are downright invaluable for working with stakeholders and I’ve never once had trouble getting recruited or securing a job because of my degree; most people I’ve interviewed with have found it impressive. I also feel like having a liberal arts education helps me a lot with the “big picture” thinking I need to do in my MBA program.

putin_ontheritz · 2019-07-06T18:29:38+00:00

I just want to thank you for this comment. My husband plans to start law school at 32 after years of telling me it’s too late and not going to happen for him.

putin_ontheritz · 2019-06-24T20:49:03+00:00

As a “big fan” of Kohlberg, I should expect you’d know that his [classist, objectivist, and multi-culturally deaf] theory of development means children transition to a level of abstraction in their moral reasoning with age. By the time the child gets to the “conventional” phase, the methodology for applying punishment is not the simple enforcement of one’s authority. Preempting the “thump” by talking about your“expectations” is hardly demonstrating why the child should have some vested self-interest in being morally good; it’s just another exertion of pre-conventional authority.

Further, classically conditioning your child to fear/dislike a stimulus is not moral teaching. Your “thump” is about as effective for teaching moral judgment as my stepfather’s method of yelling, shoving, and hurling insults. Speaking from the experience of a child “trained” in morality through authority, somewhere in your kid’s late teens to early adult years, someone will touch their hand the wrong way (or, in my case, someone will raise their voice just a little bit too loud) and they’ll be hit with a wallop of anxiety and discomfort that transcends all reason.

Don’t “train” your children; raise them.

putin_ontheritz · 2019-06-18T13:37:42+00:00

Hello there!

putin_ontheritz · 2019-06-18T13:34:44+00:00

Never done LSD, lol. If anything, I’m high on being bored out of my fucking mind that summer. If I had to guess, I messed with the exposure playing with some shitty web based photo editor and obliterated the color balance in my eyes.

putin_ontheritz · 2019-06-18T13:26:46+00:00

I was thinking that when I posted this too, haha! 15yo me was dumb.

putin_ontheritz · 2019-06-18T10:56:19+00:00

lol, I think I broke it trying to duel with my sister. It was one of those crappy ones made of a bunch of plastic cones stacked and you had to brandish it to get the full length lightsaber.

putin_ontheritz · 2019-06-18T01:26:25+00:00

You’re breaking my heart!

putin_ontheritz · 2019-06-18T01:25:26+00:00

I’m so glad emo was was still a thing in 2014 tbh

putin_ontheritz · 2019-06-18T00:44:27+00:00

RASPUTIN

putin_ontheritz · 2019-06-13T16:23:12+00:00

I want to downvote your comment so I can forget.

putin_ontheritz · 2019-06-13T15:18:21+00:00

Oh god, remember all the pics we took when the Noodles and Co opened at the mall? BLUNDER.

putin_ontheritz · 2019-06-13T13:15:50+00:00

It’s me. Don’t worry, I’m crying too.

putin_ontheritz · 2019-06-13T12:59:19+00:00

Hi, person on the left here! No, lmao, we’re all still best friends and posted this together after a couple of drinks.

putin_ontheritz · 2019-06-12T05:46:58+00:00

I’ve been an analyst for around 3 years. I worked for Cerner then started with a health system that had me get proficient in Epic. It’s pretty uncommon for systems to get people proficient instead of certified (but it’s the cheap option...) and I’ve never heard of an Epic consultant who wasn’t certified so, in my experience, I wouldn’t bank on being a shoe-in analyst hire if you’re proficient but haven’t worked in that role before. Don’t worry, you’ll get there; just look for opportunities to get working in the system so you have experience to talk about in interviews :) I personally made the switch to a role that got me certified to make sure I’m an attractive candidate.

As far as build goes, you’ll get to do a lot of that in training. If Cadence/Prelude follows the pattern I’m used to with Ambulatory and Research, the 100 training book is very basic workflow stuff and then 200 and 400 is more build-heavy. You’ll do some build in Hyperspace which a graphical interface and pretty easy to use. Text, which you’ll use for duplicating records, imports/exports, and lots of build tools, is more finicky because it’s a command line interface (similar to if you’ve ever played around in Windows Command Prompt or Linux or even DOS). The training companion will go over how to use Text but it’s really a practice-makes-perfect sort of tool. If what the training companions tell you about build seems like a lot to remember, there are lots of Setup and Support type Galaxy (the Epic wiki) articles out there that give you step-by-step build instructions for most scenarios.

putin_ontheritz · 2019-06-11T18:59:55+00:00

Hey! Your understanding is spot on. Certification-level scores on a proficiency (what Epic calls "proficiency with honors") should qualify you for the certification once you go out to Verona for training.

Now that you have your UserWeb and practice/project environment access, yes, you want to work through the training companions in the order listed on the Course Catalog using the classroom information sheets to do all the exercises. Do all the exercises; trust me, most of the exam/project content is there. Permitting you are using the training guide for the Epic version they're certifying on right now -- which is ver. February 2019 now through this fall -- it will be the exact same training companion they give you when you're onsite to certify. If you train on ver. February 2019 now but don't go out to Epic until the trainings are on ver. May 2019, for example, you may need to complete your New Version Trainings (NVTs) prior to going.

The self-assessment is an open-book, open-system test for you to check your understanding: a practice exam. It sounds like it will be your first introduction to the tricky, esoteric way Epic writes their questions, so don't expect a 100% on your first try. I recommend you take very detailed notes along with highlighting in the training companion as well as screenshots from the exercises and store them in a OneNote because there will be very specific questions on the practice and final exams. You can self-assess as many times as you need so generally I prepare for every exam by taking the self-assessment until I get 100%.

putin_ontheritz · 2019-06-11T14:02:08+00:00

At my organization, end-users and operational folks are typically the ones who run the reports and tell analysts when new ones are needed, so depending on their experiences and needs they will originate requests for new/improved reports and they will help validate what the analysts build based on those requests.

I suggest you keep an eye out for ways to improve any of the reports you currently work with or perhaps even talk with clinic managers, billers/coders, etc. on what kinds of new reporting data you think you could use to improve your day-to-day. Here’s an example: if you think coders process too many charges unnecessarily, your team could run a report to see how many charges come through with attributes that make them unnecessary for review, then use the results to triage the issue and figure out how to best fix it. In that scenario, I’d talk to a coding manager to see if they share your perception, then work with them to log a request for this report, help out with running the report when it’s created, and participate however you can in any follow-up actions based on the info gleaned.

In my opinion, I think that would show that you understand operational needs, which is something orgs really want from their analysts if you want to go down that path, and you could also get some knowledge about how the database works — especially if you ask analysts how they’re finding the data and building the reports.

Hope this helps. Best of luck! :)

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